WASHINGTON, July 17 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release on July 16, 2024: WEST YELLOWSTONE, Montana - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced a settlement with Hi-Noon Petroleum Inc. (Hi-Noon) resolving alleged Clean Water Act (CWA) violations involving a gasoline discharge into Grayling Creek in Yellowstone National Park (YNP), Wyoming. EPA alleges that Hi-Noon violated the CWA with a discharge of 4,800 gallons of gasoline into Gray  more

BILLINGS, Montana, July 19 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Montana issued the following news release on July 18, 2024: A Whitefish physician accused in connection with alleged schemes to defraud government health programs admitted on Wednesday to falsely billing Medicare and other health programs in a telemedicine scheme that resulted in more than $39 million in false billing, the U.S. Attorney's Office said today. The defendant, Ronald David Dean, 64, had an initial app  more

WASHINGTON, July 19 -- The White House issued the following news release on July 18, 2024: Today, President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. declared that a major disaster exists in the State of Montana and ordered Federal assistance to supplement state, tribal, and local recovery efforts in the areas affected by a severe winter storm and flooding from May 6 to May 9, 2024. Federal funding is available to state, tribal, and eligible local governments and certain private nonprofit organizations on a cost-s  more

WASHINGTON, July 17 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service issued the following news release on July 16, 2024: Charlo, Mont. - Today the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) announced the publication of the final supplemental Environmental Assessment (EA) for the proposed construction of replacement facilities to administer the Northwest Montana Wetland Management District. In 2022, the Service published an EA for the construction of new facilities, select  more

WASHINGTON, July 20 -- The Small Business Administration's Office of Disaster Assistance issued the following news release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Low-interest federal disaster loans are now available to certain private nonprofit organizations in Montana following President Biden's federal disaster declaration for Public Assistance as a result of the severe winter storm and flooding that occurred May 6 - 9, announced Administrator Isabella Casillas Guzman of the U.S. Small Business Administration  more

WASHINGTON, July 17 -- The Small Business Administration's Office of Disaster Assistance issued the following news release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Small nonfarm businesses in eight Montana counties are now eligible to apply for low interest federal disaster loans from the U.S. Small Business Administration, announced Francisco Sanchez Jr., associate administrator for the Office of Disaster Recovery and Resilience at the Small Business Administration. These loans offset economic losses because of   more